Park Court, Level 1, Pacific Place. Opens today and runs until Feb 13, Daily, 10am-midnight
This exhibition features eight rice paper cut-outs by artist Bovey Lee, greeting the Lunar New Year with one of the most ancient Chinese handicrafts.
The name of the exhibition derives from three of Lee's works - the butterflies in What the Monarch Remembers I & II, and the rabbit in Rescue Mission (right). Lee says the butterflies, representing beauty, hope, dreams and rebirth, together with the rabbit, symbolising kindness, trustworthiness and creativity, 'perfectly symbolise good fortune for 2011'.
The challenge of paper cut-outs, Lee says, is that you cannot afford to make a mistake. Although it's a time-consuming craft, unlike painting, it's irreversible and every cut has to be accurate or you'll have to start all over again.
To avoid making mistakes, Lee plans well ahead before putting cutter to paper. She deploys both technology and craftsmanship - she creates templates using computer software before cutting out her designs by hand. 'Paper cutting fascinates me because everything's connected on such a fragile piece of paper,' Lee says.
'There's something very beautiful about it and it's sort of like life. You start with a whole piece of paper and cut away the unwanted parts to get what you want, and end up with the final big picture. There's a parallel in the way I approach life - when you try to figure out what you want, sometimes you have to figure that out from what you don't want.'